Combined chair and couch.



PATENTED APR. 17, 1906.

C. S. J. STEVENS.

COMBINED CHAIR AND COUCH.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 15,1905.

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CHARLES s. J. STEVENS, OF OAKLAND, INDIAN TERRITORY. COMBINED CHAIR AND COUCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed July 16, 1905. Serial No. 26 9,777.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, CHARLEs S. J. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in District 22, Indian Territory, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Chair and Couch, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a combined recliningchair and couch particularly adapted for the use of invalids and old persons.

It relates to that class of chairs having a hinged back and foot rest which are connected together, so that the latter may be lowered and the former raised simultaneously to produce a substantially level couch or bed formed by the seat, back, and foot sections.

It is characterized by improved means for effecting the adjustment referred to, also by an improved device for lifting the person bodily from the seat upon occasion, and also by other details of construction, as will more fully appear from the following description and the drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the article set up as a chair. Fig. 2 is a side elevation as a couch. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a detail in section, showing how casters may be attached for the purpose of making a roller-chair.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the seat consists of side pieces 6, between which extend bottom boards 7. This seat is fixed upon a supporting frame having upright posts 8, which are secured at the bottom to rockers 9. To change the chair from a rocking-chair to a roller-chair, casters 10 may be put into the lower ends of the posts 8.

The back consists of side frames 11 and cross-boards 12 and is hinged, as at 13, to the bottom boards of the seat. The circular extensions 14 project from the rear ends of the side pieces 6 of the seat and fit in corresponding recesses in the side boards 11 of the back. These circular extensions are concentric with the pivot of the hinges and serve to stay and support the back and take the strain off the hinges to some extent. At the top of the back is a hinged headboard 15. Legs 16 are hinged on the rear side of the back and may be swung down to rest on the floor and support the back when it is let down to form the couch. When the back is raised, the legs fold in against the same.

The foot-section consists of side pieces 17 with cross-boards 18 between, and the section is hinged, as at 19, to the bottom boards of the seat. The side boards 6 have at the front ends circular extensions 20, similar to those at the rear ends and which fit in corresponding recesses in the side boards 17 ofthe footsection and for the same purpose as mentioned with respect to the back.

Connecting-rods 21 extend between the foot and back sections, being connected to the upwardly-extending projections 17 and hooked to the side pieces 11 of the back-section. These rods cause the foot and back sections to swing together, so that when the back-section is let down the foot-section is turned up to make a level couch, as shown in Fig. 2. Rods 22 are connected between the seat and the hinged headboard 15, so that when the back-section is let down the headboard is turned upwardly against the end of the back-section to form a headboard for the couch.

The back is adjustable to various inclinations, being fixed at adjustment by'pawl-levers 23, which are pivoted to the back-section and which engage notched segments 24, fastened to the side pieces 6 and having their notches located at the circular edge of the extensions 14 in position to be engaged by the paw A lifting device for raising the invalid or person from his seat comprises arm-rests 25, supported by standards 26, which extend through holes in the bottom board of the seat and into sockets formed in a cross-piece 27, which slides vertically in guides 28 beside the rear posts 8. the lower end of a bent lever 29, which is pivoted at 30 to brackets on the rear cross-bar 31 of the base-frame of the chair. This lever has a spring-latch 32 engageable with the notched segment 33, fixed to the frame. I/Vhen it is desired to raise the person, he places his arms over the arm-rests and is lifted by another person swinging down the lever. The lower ends of the rods 26 fit loosely in sockets in the cross-bar 27 so that they may be pulled out and removed from the chair out of the way when not in use.

The article will be found useful and convenient for the care of invalids and infirm persons. Suitable cushions 34 are preferably placed upon the chair -sections. The rods 21 also serve to support a lap-board 35, which may be placed thereon for reading or eating purposes and the like.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cross-bar is connected to In a combined chair and couch, the combination with a seat-section having side pieces which terminate at the ends in segmental 9X- tensions, of back and foot sections hinged to the seat-section and having side pieces with recesses in which said extensions fit, the side pieces of the footsection having upwardlyprojecting extensions which stop against and rest upon the side pieces of the seat-section when the foot-section is turned up, and the side pieces of the back-section having shoulders at their lower ends which stop against the ends of the seat-section when let down, connectingrods between the back and foot sections, and means to fix the same at adjust- I 5 ment.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES S. J. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. GUY, FRANK STEVENS. 

